RANDAL’S POV“I have laboured and toiled to give you everything you have, but still, still, still...” My mother broke down in tears.It was a sniff, her shoulders shook once and then a second time and she was done sobbing.“Why are you hellbent on going against me? Why can you not see that I am trying to do what is best for you?”“Mother,” I called her slowly. “Thank you for your effort but what do you mean? I am confused.” Despite how my heart raced and my chest closed up watching my mother weep over me, I remembered Koa’s lessons.If I wanted people, especially my mother, to see me as a man rather than a child, then I would have to be a man. It was a confusing idea, but if there was anyone I could trust, it would be my brother. He was the only one my mother was scared of and my mother was the scariest person I knew.“Confused about what? Randal, everything I work hard for, the life I live, everything I do, is all for you and somehow, why is it not good enough for you?” She yelled at
Everything was a blur. After Slater, I had more and more work to do. It was not enough for Cassius to lose, I also had to win big. So far, as expected, Slater had swallowed his business and his pack had become unsatisfied with his leadership. Rumours had it that the elders had asked him to step down.Of course, he would not step down. He would not be Cassius Raven if he let one or two critical situations completely ruin him so he would try. He would try time and time again to rise from his fall but I would be there every step of the way to make sure he no longer had any glory days.“Miss, the Alpha is here again,” Sonia let me know with unease in her tone. “Alpha Rufus is not home today, so – he is causing quite a ruckus. What should we do?”“Let him make a fool of himself. Send him away after that.” I got out of my seat and went to bed to stretch.Every day, Cassius came to see me and every day, I sent him away. Persephone Adelard, the only salvation he knew. Now that he was in troub
“My dearest mother has her sights set on you,” Koa said during the tense carriage ride back home. “Your father is in danger, too.”Again, I was staring death in the face.The Luna Queen had decided to get rid of my father and I. It was not unexpected. I knew that once she got it into her head that my father was not a tool she could use, she would not want him to fall into someone else’s hands and would, thus, try to do something about him.“You will be fine,” Koa tried to assure me but he had not died before and kept memories of his gruesome death so he did not understand how I was feeling.“I will be fine only if I can outsmart her fast enough.” I bit my fingers. “You will not always be there to protect me.”“I will be,” he said. “Do you trust me?” He beat me to the punch. “No, do not say a word but trust me. I will protect you.”“It’s risky for me to entrust my life to someone else. You are, after all, the Alpha Prince of all of Deimos,” I repeated the words I had heard earlier. “I w
KOA’S POV“Alpha Koa, a word.” A hard gaze fixed on me. Alpha Adelard looked on the verge of a shift as if he would rend his clothes at any moment and attack me.“Whatever you have to say to him, I must hear it too,” Persephone stepped forward. “It does, after all, involve me.”“Stop being silly. This has nothing to do with you.” He turned to his daughter with a heated glare. “Go to your room and… ““I must have given the impression of making a request.” She did not back down. “Alpha Koa is my guest. If you have anything to say to him, I must hear it. You two have nothing to talk about that does not involve me.”It was amazing to see two very similar people face off. Despite how different they looked, as they openly challenged each other, they seemed very similar..My little spitfire. She was just like her father.“If you insist.” The face-off ended in her victory.Alpha Adelard turned and gave us no choice but to follow behind him. When we entered the parlour, two omegas came to serv
KOA’S POV“This brings it to seven Alphas that have gone missing,” Faris briefed me. “The Alpha King has asked that you handle the investigation and if you do not find them, the blame will be on you. What do we do? Is it the job of the Alpha Prince to find missing people? That is the job of enforcers!”“It is an arduous task.” I read through the profiles of the Alphas that had gone missing. “These men will never be found.”“What – how – what do you mean?” Faris’ eyes bulged. “Do you have a hand in this?” He exclaimed.It was now that I was the hand in this than anything else. Only seven had disappeared so far. Not enough to throw my mother into a panic but enough for her to notice something was wrong. Did she suspect me? It did not matter since there would never be proof that I was involved.I looked at the sword hanging in my office and wondered what sort of weapon Persephone handed to me. It was demonic, rather than something blessed by the goddess.“My father has asked the impossib
With the threat of death looming over me, I could no longer go out as I pleased. Being trapped did not appeal to me so I took an entourage of both warriors and enforcers to a nearby theatre to watch a play. Because of my bad luck, I ran into Cassius.“Persephone.” I was confronted by the last man I wanted to see in this life. “Even if you are throwing a tantrum, have you forgotten I am your Alpha? I will not let you continue to disrespect me.”“Alpha Raven, I have submitted a formal request to leave your pack. I am still waiting for your response. Please, do not bother me.”In fact, not only had I sent a message that said I wanted to leave the Blood Crescent pack, but I had also written notice of leave for my father and everyone that I made a member of Blood Crescent after my father renounced his position as the Alpha of the Adelard pack which was then absorbed into Blood Crescent.“I never granted that permission so you are still a member of Blood Crescent. You are a wolf under me so
My father prepared himself and was ready to see the Alpha King at the crack of dawn the next day. I came out with my nightwear, having just been woken up by the sound of him issuing orders to the enforcers. He was dressed in his uniform and it made a clear statement. As I looked at him, I felt uneasy. I did not want my father to do anything dangerous because of me. In the past, he got his head chopped off for defending me. I would not forgive myself if I cost him his life a second time.“Are you leaving now?” I asked a question with an obvious answer since I was overwhelmed and did not know what to say.“Yes.” His face was set with hard lines. “You do not have anything to fear. I have given the enforcers orders so you cannot leave the house without them.”“I had not planned on going anywhere today,” I responded.The air wafting off him was chilly, freezing. I felt I was a child again, watching my father from far off, wondering what kind of a man he was. He was closed off, his outfit
It was chaotic but the person who stirred up the chaos had become elusive. It had been three days since my father last came home and no one, including Mr. Kim, knew where he had gone. Ever since the rumour spread that my father would support Koa to be the Alpha King, I had only seen him a handful of times and he had refused to discuss the matter with me. It was as if he believed that if he kept me out, I would naturally lose all interest in the matter. The opposite happened. The more he tried to keep me out, the more curious I became. Thus, despite the complete silence I received from Koa’s end, I prepared to write him a letter.He must be too busy to think of me. Now that he had my father’s support, he must feel there was no reason to write to me. His incessant letters suddenly stopped and I did not even glimpse his shadow in over a week, not to talk of his face. It left me feeling irritated.After repeatedly chasing after me and vowing to make me fall in love with him and become his